Tag: hospitals
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Lame-duck Congress could cut funding for critical access hospitals; more than two dozen in Kentucky
Critical access hospitals, which in most states are rural facilities with fewer than 25 beds, may be under attack in the lame-duck session of Congress, former national rural-health director Wayne...
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U of L and KentuckyOne Health announce partnership that keeps women’s health services intact at University Hospital
The University of Louisville and KentuckyOne Health have reached a partnership agreement that will leave the resolution of any “moral roadblocks” up to a higher authority. U of L President...
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Baptist Health buys Trover Health in Western Kentucky, making Baptist Kentucky’s largest health-care provider by licensed beds
Following the nationwide trend of large hospitals taking over smaller ones in light of health care reform demands in a slow economy, Louisville-based Baptist Health added an eighth hospital to...
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Here are the seven factors driving health care cost increases
Escalating health care costs are everybody’s problem and no one entity’s fault. Julie Appleby at Kaiser Health News reports that the United States spends about18 percent of its gross domestic...
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Statewide trauma system established; called ‘most significant advancement in health of Kentuckians for the last 20 years’
Dr. Andrew Bernard, chair, State Trauma Advisory Committee Ten Kentucky hospitals have been recognized as part of the state’s first official statewide trauma system. The announcement came during the 2012...
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Infections, other safety issues plague hospitals, maybe more so when nursing is cut; here’s a good series on it
The Centers for Disease Control has reported that nearly 1 million patient-safety incidents, including infections that patients acquired in hospitals, occurred among Medicare patients over the years 2006, 2007, 2008....
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Opportunity for news stories: New federal rules mean all nonprofit hospitals must do a community health needs assessment
It’s long been the rule that nonprofit hospitals have had to provide charitable benefits to their community in order to keep their nonprofit status. That’s no small matter, given that...
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Health reform expected to hurt recruitment of rural doctors
Recruiting doctors to rural hospitals will get harder in the next few years as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act reaches full implementation and the demand for healthcare services...
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State’s hospitals see impressive growth spurt from nearly $1 billion in capital investment
Kentucky’s major hospital systems are going big, making high-profile, technology-forward capital investments across the commonwealth. Josh Shepherd of The Lane Report writes that every sector of the state is part...
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Tenn. study suggests rural residents have as much access to care as anyone, if they’re insured and don’t mind the drive
A health-care study in Tennessee, which started with the premise that people in rural areas have less access to care than urban dwellers, ended with a rather surprising conclusion: They...